Anti Imperialist Action Ireland
On Saturday August 8, the Far Right were confronted by a United Front of Republicans and Anarchists and humiliated on the streets of Dublin. As Republicans and other progressives gathered at a rally on O’Connell Bridge to mark the anniversary of the introduction of Internment by Britain in 1971, organised by Saoradh, a small group […]
We had a chat recently with Russell “Texas” Bentley who is an American communist who has been living and fighting in the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine/Novirossia since 2014. Russell gave us a update on the situation in the region: the spirit of the people, the Ukrainian army and their fascist mercenaries, some international links […]
The Starry Plough Martial Arts Club has started back training in Dublin after a break due to Covid-19. Starry Plough Martial Arts trains Socialist Republicans to defend ourselves and our communities and puts an emphasis on developing Revolutionary Physical Culture in the Republican Movement and in Working Class Communities. The motto of the club is […]
By Prionsias Ó Riain Intro This article was written in the aftermath of the vandalism of IRA Chief of Staff Seán Russell’s statue in Fairview North Dublin with spraypaint. This was not the first time that the Russell statue was attacked, in 1953, two years after it was first unveiled, the statue was targeted […]
We spoke with Marxist analyst and former financial trader Tony Norfield about China vs US power contention and contradictions. Tony wrote about this in a recent article so we went over the topics covered: https://economicsofimperialism.blogspot.com/2020/07/china-us-power.html?m=1 The interview is here: We ask Tony a few other questions afterwards: Many thanks to Tony for this informative chat. […]
Yesterday, on the 106th Anniversary of the Howth Gun Running, scores of Republicans gathered at the East Pier in Howth to commemorate one of the key events in the lead up to the 1916 Rising. Led by the a section of the Socialist Republican Colour Party, the parade made its way along the pier to […]
Socialist Republicans from Anti Imperialist Action and Saoradh and some Independent Revolutionary Socialists held a Direct Action Against the auction of our history, staging a symbolic occupation of the Free Masons Hall where the shameful auction of our history is being held. After the Occupation, a demonstration was held outside with chants of our history […]
Volunteer Paddy McLogan was born in Armagh in 1899, and was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood by his Uncle in 1913, aged just 14. Later that same year he joined the Irish Volunteers at its formation and for the rest of his life, until his death in suspicions circumstances, remained a uncompromising militant and […]
On Sunday July 11, Socialist Republicans from across Ireland gathered in Bodenstown to pay their annual respects to the Father of Irish Republicanism and the Leader of the 1798 Uprising, Theobald Wolfe Tone. Since the days of Thomas Davis in the 1840s, Visits to the grave of Tone have been an important event for the […]
In Ireland today we have the spectacle of packs of wild eyed frothing middle aged mostly men screaming “Paedophile!!” at mostly women and mostly young people who want to protest against their bigoted views. How have we arrived at this situation?Who are the screamers? Why are they screaming “paedophile” at young people? Who are the […]